Sustainability

Global Energy Emissions, Demand, Mix and Transition towards Sustainability

Leave a Comment / June 16, 2022 / Net Zero, Sustainability / By

How do we appear positioned at present to meet emissions reduction targets established by the Paris Agreement? In context, considering energy, a main contributor to emissions, topics of relevance: Current global demand for energy Projections for future demand Contours of an Energy transition Energy mix between fossil fuels and renewables View forward: uncertain business models, …

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Momentous SEC Climate Reporting Rules proposed: to take effect beginning with Filings in 2024

Leave a Comment / June 16, 2022 / Sustainability, Transparency / By

On March 21 this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rule changes requiring registrants to include material climate-related disclosures in their registration documents and periodic filings. The comment period for the proposed rules ends May 20, 2022, after which it will likely take the rest of the year before the SEC finalizes the …

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Now or Never: AR6 WG III Report by IPCC on Climate Change Mitigation

Leave a Comment / June 15, 2022 / Net Zero, Sustainability / By

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) released on April 4, 2022 calls for fast action to stabilize the climate, listing a broad range of opportunities enabling compliance with the commitments made in the 2015 Paris agreement. Each successive assessment report from the IPCC since the first one in 1990 has …

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Is it really time to let your guard down?

1 Comment / March 11, 2022 / COVID-19, Health, Risk / By

After the Centers of Disease Control announced a mask less policy, based on the number of hospitalizations, vaccination status and prevalence of positive cases, people were overjoyed. Public places opened doors to welcome eager visitors who are out to have fun and put the pandemic behind them. The message read on everyone face is ‘Covid …

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Ready to be unmasked? Follow the 3C’s

Leave a Comment / March 11, 2022 / COVID-19, Health, Risk / By

Spring may come early this year as the announcement of the Centers for Disease Control last week felt like a fresh breath of air. The much-awaited announcement stated that mask wearing could be relaxed indoors for people that are fully immunized. Most of the United States government buildings have withdrawn the requirement of wearing masks …

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Is the Covid-19 Pandemic an Endemic Now? Are we there yet?

Leave a Comment / March 11, 2022 / COVID-19, Risk / By

Covid-19 has taught us many new things over the past two years, and it has raised public understanding of the difference between an epidemic, pandemic and endemic. When there was a sudden surge of new cases of Covid-19 starting from Wuhan, China in 2020 as a typical Infectious Communicable Disease, we started hearing the word …

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One Vaccine may Protect Against all Coronavirus Variants

Leave a Comment / December 20, 2021 / COVID-19, Health, Livelihoods, Risk, Sustenance / By

Good News- New COVID-19 Vaccine may protect against all variants of Coronavirus! Anika H. Ahmed, MD The Coronavirus continues to create havoc in everyone’s life across the globe and researchers are today back at the drawing board, trying to figure out one vaccine that may be able to help the immune system defend against all …

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Laboratories’ Ability to Detect Omicron

Leave a Comment / December 20, 2021 / COVID-19, Health, Livelihoods, Risk / By

Are our laboratories ready to detect the Omicron variant? Anika H. Ahmed, MD Scientists are not stopping when it comes to the fight against COVID-19. The first case of the Omicron variant was detected and announced on November 25, out in South Africa and it was detected upon evidence of new sequencing in the COVID-19 …

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First U.S. Omicron Case Detected

Leave a Comment / December 18, 2021 / COVID-19, Global Value Chains, Health, Livelihoods, Risk / By

First Omicron Positive Case Detected in the United States Anika H. Ahmed, MD On Wednesday, December 1st, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced at a press briefing at the White House that the first positive case of Omicron variant of the Coronavirus has been detected in California. …

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How Omicron Variant of Covid-19 differs from Alpha & Delta Variants

2 Comments / December 18, 2021 / COVID-19, Health, Risk / By

How is the Omicron Variant different from Alpha & Delta Variants of COVID-19? Anika H. Ahmed, MD As family and friends depart for their respective destinations after celebrating Thanksgiving together, and folks hosting Thanksgiving dinners are still finishing their leftovers, they receive news of yet another variant of Coronavirus, namely Omicron, first detected in South …

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